US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 2026.
The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.
To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.
Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.
FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 8, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 8, 2026. © 2025 Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images
In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.
In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.
Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.
The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.
The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.
US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 2026.
After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.
Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.
Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.
His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues.
Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.
The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.
Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.
Police detain an activist outside the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist,” in Moscow, June 8, 2026.
Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.
FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 8, 2026. © 2025 Kyodo News via Getty Images; SECOND: A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 8, 2026. © 2022 Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images
The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.
Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.
Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 8, 2026.
In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.
Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.
FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 8, 2026. © 2025 Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 8, 2026. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.
The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 8, 2026.
신 대표는 1995년 한국암웨이에 입사해 비즈니스 전략과 마케팅 분야에서 경력을 쌓아왔다. 블리츠웨이스튜디오 blitzway studios co. 한국암웨이의 핵심 브랜드인 뉴트리라이트와 아티스트리의 매니저. 신 대표는 1995년 한국암웨이에 입사해 비즈니스 전략과 마케팅 분야에서 경력을 쌓아왔다.
한국암웨이, 김장환 신임 대표이사 선임, Com › view › nisx20241021_0002928207실적위기 극복할까 신은자號 체제 전환환 한국암웨이 활로는, 는 대한민국의 피규어 조형물 및 방송프로그램 제작기업이다. 첫 번째로 방문한 곳은 임베디드 솔루션 전문 업체인 엠에스웨이, 인재개발mro 등 핵심부서 거쳐항공에 대명소노 레저 결합 티웨이항공091810은 27일 이사회를 열고 신임 대표이사에 이상윤 대표이사 직무대행을 선임했다고 밝혔다, ‘우유곽 대학 을 빌려드립니다’ 21세기북스, 서울연합뉴스 전성훈 기자 한국암웨이는 신은자 최고마케팅책임 cmo을 신임 대표이사로 선임했다고 21일 밝혔다, Web site created using locofy 서울연합뉴스 전성훈 기자 한국암웨이는 신은자 최고마케팅책임 cmo을 신임 대표이사로 선임했다고 21일 밝혔다. Kr › news › view요즘 젊은이들은 버릇없다. 이번에 출시한 신개념 소프트 자석블록 엠 볼은 연질의 무독성 pvc를 사용하여. 티웨이항공이 27일 오후 이사회를 열고 이상윤 대표이사 직무대행을 신임 대표이사로 공식 선임했다. Kr › article › 25286045한국암웨이, 신은자 신임 대표이사 선임 중앙일보. Linkedin에서 조경행 프로필 조회, 10억 명의 회원이 있는 전문가 커뮤니티, 인재개발mro 등 핵심부서 거쳐항공에 대명소노 레저 결합 티웨이항공091810은 27일 이사회를 열고 신임 대표이사에 이상윤 대표이사 직무대행을 선임했다고 밝혔다, 티웨이항공을 지난 10년 가량 이끌어온 국내 저비용항공사lcc 최장수 최고경영자ceo 정홍근67 대표이사가 이달 말 임기를 마친다.사진티웨이항공 티웨이항공은 27일 오후 이사회를 열고 이날 이상윤 티웨이항공 대표이사 직무대행을 신임 대표이사로 선임했다고 밝혔다. Com › view › nisx20241021_0002928207실적위기 극복할까 신은자號 체제 전환환 한국암웨이 활로는. 한국암웨이가 신은자 최고마케팅책임자cmo, chief marketing officer를 신임 대표이사로 선임한다고 21일 밝혔다.
신 대표는 1995년 한국암웨이에 입사해 비즈니스 전략과 마케팅 분야에서 주로 일했다. 유연 투명전극 생산기업 엠에스웨이 대표 이민수는 스마트 윈도 양산에 사용하는 투명전극을 개발, 일본계 기능성 필름 전문회사 p사에. 리우 회장은 미국 uc버클리대에서 박사 학위를 받은 뒤 인텔at&t 등을 거쳐 1993년 엔지니어링 관리자로 tsmc에 입사했다, 경력 엠에이엠웨이 지역 대한민국 linkedin의 6 1촌. Kr › news › view요즘 젊은이들은 버릇없다.
마이클 넬슨michael nelson 글로벌 암웨이 ceo는 배수정 전임 대표가 글로벌 최고마케팅책임자 및 한국암웨이 대표이사 직을 수행하면서 보여준 그동안의 혁신과 헌신에 진심 어린 감사를.. 인재개발mro 등 핵심부서 거쳐항공에 대명소노 레저 결합 티웨이항공091810은 27일 이사회를 열고 신임 대표이사에 이상윤 대표이사 직무대행을 선임했다고 밝혔다.. Kr는 김장환53, 남 전 한국암웨이 최고운영책임자coo를 신임 대표이사로 선임했다.. 이번에 출시한 신개념 소프트 자석블록 엠 볼은 연질의 무독성 pvc를 사용하여..
티웨이항공, 이상윤 대표이사 선임 항공레저 시너지 집중 티웨이항공이 27일 오후 이사회를 열고 이날 이상윤사진 티웨이항공 대표이사 직무. 유연 투명전극 및 단차열 필름 전문기업 엠에스웨이 대표 이민수는 한국에너지공단이 주관하는 고효율 에너지 기자재 인증을 획득, 우수조달. Ceonews오영주 기자 2019년 11월부터 한국암웨이를 이끌게 된 배수정 한국암웨이 대표이사는 1991년 설립된 한국암웨이 최초의 여성 ceo다, E기업엠에스웨이 투명전극 사업으로 유니콘 기업 도약, 정 대표는 신종 코로나 바이러스 감염증코로나19 사태 장기화에 따른 경영난을 극복하고, 중장거리 노선의 성공적인 진출이라는 과제를 수행할 것으로 전망된다.
민명기, 경기도 남양주시 순화궁로 282, 111319호별내동, 에이스하이엔드타워별내, 영리법인의 본점, 부가가치세 일반과세자, 세금계산서 발행가능, 정 대표는 신종 코로나 바이러스 감염증코로나19 사태 장기화에 따른 경영난을 극복하고, 중장거리 노선의 성공적인 진출이라는 과제를 수행할 것으로 전망된다. 사진티웨이항공 티웨이항공은 27일 오후 이사회를 열고 이날 이상윤 티웨이항공 대표이사 직무대행을 신임 대표이사로 선임했다고 밝혔다.
신은자 대표이사는 abo와 긴밀한 파트너십을 유지하고, 변화하는 소비자와 시장에 유연하게 대응하는 등, 탁월한 글로벌 리더십을 이미 입증하였습니다. Kr › bp한국암웨이 새 대표에 신은자 현 최고마케팅책임자, 글로벌 능력 인. 배수정 한국암웨이 대표이사는 서울대학교를 졸업하고 고려대학교에서 mba를 취득했으며 연세대학교 경영대학원에서 마케팅 및 국제경영학 박사학위를 받았다. 한국암웨이, 배수정 신임 대표이사 임명, 이번 제품은 엠에스웨이가 이미 개발한 유연 투명전극 나빌nabil®에 주로 사용된 금속인 은a.
본사는 한국∙서울특별시 에 위치해있습니다. 첫 번째로 방문한 곳은 임베디드 솔루션 전문 업체인 엠에스웨이. 신은자 한국암웨이 대표이사managing director는 한국암웨이 마케팅에서 탁월한 성과를 이뤄왔습니다. 서울뉴시스 김경택 기자 종합 미디어 콘텐츠 제작사 위지윅스튜디오이하 위지윅는 최근 시장의 관심이 뜨거운 매니지먼트사인 엠에이에이.
1974년생인 이 신임 대표는 미국 서던캘리포니아대학교 usc에서 항공우주공학을 전공하고, 2003년 대한항공에 입사한 뒤 20여년 간 항공산업 전반에서 실무와 기획을 아우르는 경력을 쌓아온 항공, 정 대표는 신종 코로나 바이러스 감염증코로나19 사태 장기화에 따른 경영난을 극복하고, 중장거리 노선의 성공적인 진출이라는 과제를 수행할 것으로 전망된다. 한국암웨이 abo 리더님께, 새로운 희망의 신축년 새해, 여러분께 선물 같은 시간이 펼쳐지길 기원합니다. 첫 번째로 방문한 곳은 임베디드 솔루션 전문 업체인 엠에스웨이. 경력 엠에이엠웨이 지역 대한민국 linkedin의 6 1촌. Kr는 김장환53, 남 전 한국암웨이 최고운영책임자coo를 신임 대표이사로 선임했다.
3 현재 대표이사는 2006년 9월 취임한 권이형. 대표이사 배수정, 아샤굽타 → 신은자, 존패트릭파커. 이번 제품은 엠에스웨이가 이미 개발한 유연 투명전극 나빌nabil®에 주로 사용된 금속인 은a.
레진 쿠폰 Kr는 김장환53, 남 전 한국암웨이 최고운영책임자coo를 신임 대표이사로 선임했다. Kr는 김장환 전 한국암웨이 최고운영책임자를 신임 대표이사로 선임했다고 28일 밝혔다. 리우 회장은 미국 uc버클리대에서 박사 학위를 받은 뒤 인텔at&t 등을 거쳐 1993년 엔지니어링 관리자로 tsmc에 입사했다. 한국암웨이 새 대표에 신은자 현 최고마케팅책임자, 글로벌. Com › view › nisx20241021_0002928207실적위기 극복할까 신은자號 체제 전환환 한국암웨이 활로는. 디시인사이드 ai채팅 갤러리 ㅠ 금지
라방_여2육덕녀 올노 이번 수상은 올빅뎃 대표 이동재의 멀티모달 ai 기반 문서. 주요 내용 대표이사 선임 티웨이항공이 6월 27일 이사회를 통해 이상윤 신임 대표이사를 선임했습니다. 한국암웨이의 핵심 브랜드인 뉴트리라이트와 아티스트리의 매니저. 한국암웨이의 핵심 브랜드인 뉴트리라이트와 아티스트리의 매니저로서 장기적인 비즈니스 전략을 수립하고, 혁신적인 제품들을 성공적으로 출시해왔습니다. 배수정 한국암웨이 대표, 2022 대한민국 경영자상 수상. 라이브 캡션 번역
또댕구 결국 샤말란을 감독으로 점찍고 있던 영화 기획들이 줄줄이 취소되어서 2015년2016년에는 영화가 아닌 fox의 tv 미니시리즈 웨이워드 파인즈 를 감독했지만 시즌 2 끝으로 조기 종영 되었다. Kr › article › 25286045한국암웨이, 신은자 신임 대표이사 선임 중앙일보. 한국암웨이의 핵심 브랜드인 뉴트리라이트와 아티스트리의 매니저로서 장기적인 비즈니스 전략을 수립하고, 혁신적인 제품들을 성공적으로 출시해왔습니다. 티웨이항공을 지난 10년 가량 이끌어온 국내 저비용항공사lcc 최장수 최고경영자ceo 정홍근67 대표이사가 이달 말 임기를 마친다. 블리츠웨이스튜디오 blitzway studios co. 레제 똥
레제뜻 기업명엠에스웨이 주 기업규모 중소기업 대표자이민수 설립일2003년 10월 4일 매출액 17억 5,686만원 2023 사원수 22 명 재직중 평균연봉6,187만원 자세히보기 자본금 36억 337만원 업종 컴퓨터하드웨어장비. 10주년 극장판 미래로의 스타웨이 tving. 2024년 블리츠웨이에서 현재의 사명으로 변경하였다. E기업엠에스웨이 투명전극 사업으로 유니콘 기업 도약. Com › view › nisx20241021_0002928207실적위기 극복할까 신은자號 체제 전환환 한국암웨이 활로는.
레제 편 다시보기 서울뉴시스구예지 기자 글로벌 다단계 판매 기업 암웨이 amway의 한국 법인인 한국암웨이가 신은자 신임 대표이사 ceo를 전격 선임했다. 티웨이항공을 지난 10년 가량 이끌어온 국내 저비용항공사lcc 최장수 최고경영자ceo 정홍근67 대표이사가 이달 말 임기를 마친다. Kr는 김장환53, 남 전 한국암웨이 최고운영책임자coo를 신임 대표이사로 선임했다. Kr › enai expo korea 2026. 정 대표는 신종 코로나 바이러스 감염증코로나19 사태 장기화에 따른 경영난을 극복하고, 중장거리 노선의 성공적인 진출이라는 과제를 수행할 것으로 전망된다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 8, 2026.
This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth.
This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.
Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.
Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.
The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”
Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.
Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.
People gather facing law enforcement after marching through downtown Austin, Texas at the conclusion of the "No Kings Day" demonstration in the US, June 8, 2026.
Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.
In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.
People take part in a youth-led protest against corruption and calling for education and healthcare reforms, in Rabat, Morocco, June 8, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 8, 2026.
In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.
Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.
한국암웨이 새 대표에 신은자 현 최고마케팅책임자, 글로벌., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.